Some thoughts about Gizmodo’s Phishing story

10

May

2017

On Tuesday, Gizmodo published a story about how easy it was to get Trump Administration officials and associates to click a Phishing link. In order to do this, the Gizmodo Special Projects Desk developed a fake Google Docs email, complete with a false sign-in page.

During the elections last November, President Trump and his staff often pointed to the risks associated with Hillary Clinton’s personal email server. The campaign was also full of discussions around the DNC hack, which started via a Phishing email.